successfully had his conviction lowered to one of robbery with hurt and had his case remitted back to Justice Kan for re-sentencing. Justice Kan, who got back Galing's case from the Court of Appeal, then promptly re-sentenced Galing to 18 years and six months' imprisonment and 19 strokes of the cane. After that, on 27 August 2011, he retired from the Bench. Meanwhile, after Justice Kan's retirement, there were changes to the law in 2013 which removed the mandatory death penalty for certain capital offences. The judges in Singapore were given an option to impose life imprisonment with or without caning for offenders who commit murder but had no intention to kill. As Kho Jabing was found guilty of such a crime, he was given a chance like all death row inmates to have his sentence reviewed for re-sentencing, and although it was ordered that Kho's case was to be remitted to the original trial judge for re-sentencing, but due to Justice Kan's retirement at that point of time, High Court judge Tay Yong Kwang took over the case instead. Kho was subsequently re-sentenced to life imprisonment with 24 strokes of the cane. However, in January 2015, Kho would later on be sentenced to death a second time when the prosecution appealed to the Court of Appeal, who found that Kho had demonstrated both a blatant disregard for human life and viciousness while killing Cao Ruyin, and Kho's actions were such that it outraged the feelings of the community, which made the Court of Appeal, by a majority decision of 3 to 2, sentenced Kho to death while overturning his life sentence. Eventually, Kho was hanged to death at Changi Prison on 20 May 2016; he was 32 years old when he died. References Media release pertaining to Kan Ting Chiu's retirement on the Supreme Court of Singapore website 20th-century Singaporean judges Singaporean people of Cantonese descent Living people National University of Singapore alumni Judges of the Supreme Court of Singapore 1946 births 21st-century Singaporean judges